Valid Names Results

Andaspis kashicola is now Lepidosaphes kashicola Takahashi, 1957 (Diaspididae: Lepidosaphes)

Lepidosaphes kashicola Takahashi 1957b: 109-110. Type data: JAPAN: Kuroyama, near Osaka, on Quercus glauca, ?/09/1955 and ?/10/1955, by R. Takahashi. Unknown type status, unknown, Type depository: Sapporo: Entomological Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan; accepted valid name Illustr.
Andaspis kashicola (Takahashi, 1957); Takagi 1960: 95. change of combination Illustr.
Lepidosaphes kashicola Takahashi, 1957; Normark, et al. 2019: 62. revived combination (previously published)

Families: 6 | Genera: 8

Countries: 2

Willia1963b: pp.26 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Andaspis] Key as: Andaspis kashicola
Takagi1960: pp.98 ( Adult (F) ) [Key to species of Andaspis] Key as: Andaspis kashicola

Systematics: This species is characterized by the presence of a transverse sclerosis at the base of median lobe. It differs from Lepidosaphes crawii in the broader body, the dark scale and in the presence of submedian dorsal ducts on the pygidium (Takahashi, 1957b).
Structure: Adult female scale narrow, a little broadened posteriorly, blackish, with a purple or reddish tinge. Body rather narrow, over 2.5 times as long as wide, broadest at basal part of abdomen (Takahashi, 1957b).
General Remarks: Description and illustration by Takahashi (1957b).